John Ricco is like Middle America. He gets passed over a lot.
He has worked for three Mets general managers and twice served as an interim GM. Yet he has never ascended to be the full-time GM despite bringing a positive mien at problematic junctures and being the good soldier.
How good a soldier? Ricco just served as Jeff Wilpon’s co-pilot in information gathering and interviewing a successor to Sandy Alderson, though he was never considered a candidate.
Now, he has to decide if he wants to work for a fourth Mets GM — after Jim Duquette, Omar Minaya and Alderson — with the hiring of Brodie Van Wagenen.